Board Pearls

About Board Pearls

Board Review for Physicians That Teaches You Why, Not Just What

Board Pearls is board review and exam prep for practising physicians, residents and fellows. It is written by doctors who sit these exams, from the primary guidelines and the trials underneath them, for the clinician who has an hour tonight and a clinic tomorrow.

Board certification and maintenance of certification reward one thing: reasoning under time pressure. So every question here is a clinical vignette with a patient, real numbers and a decision to make, and every explanation covers the options you did not choose as well as the one you did.

The app puts the full boardpearls.com question bank in your pocket. Build a test around the twenty minutes you actually have, answer it anywhere, and your progress is waiting on the website when you sit back down.

EXAMS

Gastroenterology is available now, covering the GI and hepatology curriculum: esophagus, stomach and duodenum, small bowel, colon, pelvic floor, liver, pancreas and biliary disease, endoscopy, nutrition, GI infections, IBD, motility, and hereditary cancer syndromes.

Internal Medicine is in authoring. One account carries every exam you sit, billed separately, so you only pay for what you are studying.

WHAT YOU GET

- 1,368 exam-style vignette questions, every one a patient with an age, a story and real numbers
- Answer explanations that cover every wrong option, not only the right one, so you learn what you nearly chose
- Custom test builder: filter by module, organ system and topic
- Filter by your own history too: unused, incorrect, marked, omitted or correct
- A live count of how many questions match before you commit to a test
- Star a question mid-test and come back to it
- Resume an unfinished test where you left it
- Performance dashboard: score, how much of the bank you have used, and your accuracy trend
- Pace per question measured against the range for that question, so you can tell slow from careful
- Written from ACG, AGA, AASLD and ASGE guidelines, not from a summary of a summary

WHO IT IS FOR

Fellows sitting the boards for the first time. Attendings recertifying. Residents deciding on a specialty. International medical graduates preparing for United States board examinations. Anyone who has to know why an answer is right, not merely that it is.

WHY IT IS DIFFERENT

Most question banks tell you the correct answer. This one is built on the idea that the wrong answers teach more, because each of them is a real reasoning error somebody makes on exam day. Read what that condition would actually look like, then compare it with the patient in front of you.

Thirty questions are free on any account. No card and no trial clock, so you can judge the writing before you pay.

A subscription opens the whole bank, and the same subscription covers the 36 chapter study guides and 116 podcast episodes on boardpearls.com.

Board Pearls is a study aid for physicians. It is not a diagnostic tool and does not give patient-specific medical advice. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ABIM or any certifying board.

Subscription details:
- GI Board Review, Monthly: $58.00 USD per month, auto-renewing
- GI Board Review, Annual: $469.00 USD per year, auto-renewing
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID or Google account at confirmation of purchase.
- The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- Manage or cancel in your account settings on the App Store or Google Play after purchase.

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